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Case report: Cotard’s syndrome: In search of soul

INTRODUCTION: Cotard’s syndrome is characterised by extreme kind of nihilistic delusions. In this condition a person believe that he has no organs, he is not alive and is a dead man. Usually occur in severe depression. AIM: To present a case where a patient believe that he is dead and is continuousl...

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Autores principales: saini, Ashwani, Ajay, Mahla, VP
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9129552/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.341935
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description INTRODUCTION: Cotard’s syndrome is characterised by extreme kind of nihilistic delusions. In this condition a person believe that he has no organs, he is not alive and is a dead man. Usually occur in severe depression. AIM: To present a case where a patient believe that he is dead and is continuously searching for his soul and for that he is restless, agitated and wander from place to place. DISCUSSION: Cotard’s syndrome is frequently reported in settings of depressive symptoms with decrease energy, decreased psychomotor activity and hopelessness. In our case patients is restless, agitated, has increased motor activity and have a purpose of searching his soul. CONCLUSION: Patient with severe depressive disorder with cotard’s delusion can present with atypical presentations.
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spelling pubmed-91295522022-05-25 Case report: Cotard’s syndrome: In search of soul saini, Ashwani Ajay, Mahla, VP Indian J Psychiatry Abstract- Poster INTRODUCTION: Cotard’s syndrome is characterised by extreme kind of nihilistic delusions. In this condition a person believe that he has no organs, he is not alive and is a dead man. Usually occur in severe depression. AIM: To present a case where a patient believe that he is dead and is continuously searching for his soul and for that he is restless, agitated and wander from place to place. DISCUSSION: Cotard’s syndrome is frequently reported in settings of depressive symptoms with decrease energy, decreased psychomotor activity and hopelessness. In our case patients is restless, agitated, has increased motor activity and have a purpose of searching his soul. CONCLUSION: Patient with severe depressive disorder with cotard’s delusion can present with atypical presentations. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-03 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9129552/ http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.341935 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Psychiatry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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